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What you'll study

BA (Hons) with Foundation Year

The foundation year has been designed to prepare you for entry onto the degree. You’ll study the following modules.

Communicating in a Global Context

English Language for Academic Purposes 1

Academic Study Skills

English Language for Academic Purposes 2

Introduction to Study in the Humanities

Applied Learning Language Skill

BA (Hons)

First year

In each year, you’ll undertake two core language modules in each of your chosen languages, at either beginners/improvers or advanced level. You’ll also study two optional modules, covering topics such as culture, history and society, translation, TESOL, linguistics and independent research skills.

Core modules

German/Italian Language 1 - Beginners and Improvers

German/Italian Language 1 - Advanced

German/Italian Language 2 - Beginners and Improvers

German/Italian Language 2 - Advanced

Optional modules

Spotlight on Language

Communicating Cultures

Ideas and Identities

Global Challenges module

Passport Language Option

Second year

Core modules

German/Italian Language 3

German/Italian Language 4

Optional modules

Narrating the Past

Constituting the Contemporary

Understanding Languages in Context

Languages Guided Research Project

Introduction to Language Teaching

Language and the Mind

Trinity CertTESOL 1

Translation and Digital Culture

Passport Language Option

Third year

In the third year, you'll enhance your language skills further and gain real world experience living, and either working or studying abroad in the countries your languages are spoken.

Final year

Core modules

German/Italian Language 5

German/Italian Language 6

Optional modules

Languages and Cultures Dissertation

Popular Cultures

Trinity CertTESOL 2

Becoming a Professional Translator

Engagement and Resistance

Language Learning and Teaching

Introduction to Computational Linguistics

Passport Language Option

Fees and funding

UK/EU: £9,250

Overseas: £12,800

More information on fees can be found in the Money section of the website.

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Where you'll study

Hull Campus

About the course

Explore two linguistic and cultural worlds by combining German and Italian. Alongside the language and linguistics, you’ll study topics such as the culture, history and society of the countries speaking your two languages. You’ll experience living and either working or studying in the different countries in Year 3. As a result, your high-level language and intercultural skills are essential in a global job market after graduation.

Hull offers excellent language learning facilities, with a dedicated space for languages students. Our team of Language Learning Advisors offer extra one-to-one support to help you with your studies, as well as a partnership scheme which allows you to practise your chosen languages with native speakers. While studying for your degree, you have the opportunity to gain a recognised teaching qualification in Trinity CertTESOL (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). If you don’t have the qualifications to enter the programme directly, we offer a foundation year to prepare you for degree-level study.

Entry requirements

The foundation year is designed for applicants whose qualifications and experience do not allow direct entry to the undergraduate degree.

We expect applicants to demonstrate an experience of a related subject and an aptitude for academic work which may be determined by an essay and/or interview alongside the application.

For applicants with A levels in subjects other than those key to the degree, we will usually require a minimum of 80 points from Level 3 qualifications.

2017 Tariff points: 112 points. Points can be from any qualification on the UCAS tariff, but must include at least 80 points from two or more A levels, or a combination of appropriate Level 3 qualifications.

Applicants should have an A Level in a foreign language at Grade C or above.

UCAS has changed the way that qualifications earn points under the Tariff system. Please click here to work out your estimated points and to find out more about how the University of Hull considers qualifications.

Future prospects

Graduates in languages have the highest employability rates of all humanities graduates, and graduates of the University of Hull have a very good record of ﬁnding employment after graduation. With competence in three or more languages, you will be well equipped for a range of careers including translation and interpreting, journalism, teaching, the service industries and the commercial sector.

Hull graduates are rated highly by employers and are to be found in both the public and the private sector: They are civil servants, diplomats, teachers, bankers, journalists, industrialists, and members of the police force and the armed services.

A few examples of careers chosen by recent graduates show the range of opportunities: international customer liaison at Harrod’s; business analyst; United Biscuits; Customs and Excise executive office; English teaching assistant in Japan; lecturers teaching English at universities in Dijon and Reims, and at the Sorbonne in Paris; translator, Netherlands National Press Bureau; International Officer at Lloyds Bank, Intelligence Officer with RAF.